The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-30
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

New York Mail and Express.
Wash the mica of the stove doors with salt
and vinegar
Brass work can be kept beautifully bright by
occasionally rubbing with salt and vinegar
Finger-bowls of finest engraved white glass
have crowded out and confined to hotels and res
taurants the bowls of all the rainbow colors.
The use of little washing soda or borax in
the water is excellent for boards, and if they
have been neglected small lump of lime in the
water greatly helps to make them white.
Tables that have been neglected may be
bleached by spreading on them over night
layer of wood ashes, made into mortar-lke
paste with water; the next day brush it off and
scrub. The same paste may be laid on floors
when spotted with grease.
For spongecake pudding slice enough stale
sponge-cake to half fill an ordinary pudding
dish; add pint and half of milk and two we'll
beaten eggs, a little sliced ctron, half teacup-
full Of sugar and little nutmeg add small
piece of butter, and lay three strips of cit
ron over the top Bake twenty minutes.
Sour milk is an excellent bleacher Place the
garment in an earthen bowl or wooden pail and
cover entirely with the milk. Let it remain two
or three days, taking pains now and then to
shake it thoroughly Then. after washing and
boiling. it will be found of pure white. For ia
blec!cths and napkins that have become stained
and yellow this is good cure.
If you put in lump of soda weighing half a
pound more every day or Two. you will have
no trouble with the drain-pipe becoming clogged
with grease So large piece will dissolve very
| slowly, but all the water that goes down will
help to cleanse instead of soil the pipe. When
| ever you have kettle Of boiling water that
| you don't need at once, pour it into the sink.
A nice winter dessert may be prepared in this
| way: Pare and slice dozen sour oranges. and
| crate the white part of a medium-si cocoa
nut Put layer of oranges 10 the bottom of a
large glass dish, sprinkle thickly with sugar,
/ then add layer of the cocoanut Fill up the
| dish in this way with layers Of oranges, sugar
| and cocoanut making layer of cocoanut come
on top, over which sprinkle very little pulyer-
/ lied sugar.
| If the feet are tender or painful after long
| walking or standing, great relief can be had by
| bathing them in salt and water. A handful oil
salt to gallon of water is the right proportion.
| Have the water hot can comfortably be
| borne. immense the feet. and throw the water
over the legs as far as the knees with the hands
| When the water becomes too co.,. rub brisky
| with flesh towel. This method, if used nigh,
| and morning, will cure neuralgia of the feet
very snowy bureau scarf can be made Of
| irterlaced ribbon, the foundation being piece
of MOSQUITO net the size of the bureau top
Two shades of ribbon about an inch and hall
wide are interviewer, all of one shade crossing
and the other running the opposite way, the
| intersections being caught down upon the net
| by a few invisible stitches AT each end the
ribbon is extended to form loops, under which
is gathered oriental, Egyptian or torchon lace.
The simplest lamp-shades are made of muslin
laid over q bright shade of sateen and edged with
lace. Much prettier covers made of linen
with threads drawn out across and lengthwise
leaving solid squares which are covered will
stars, embroidered with silk or linen in white O.
colors. Laid over piece of colored silesia, sucl
cover is very handsome, and will he even mor
so if the drawn-out portions are filled with som
of the lace stitches now SO much used in draw
work.
For good loaf cake take two pounds of -four
half pound of butter, half pound of sugar
one pint of sponge, one pound of currant
twashed, dried and picked; rub the -four, butte
and sugar together, then add the sponge, with .
much milk will make it into q soft dough
Knead it we'll. replace it in the pan, and let j
remain until very light; then put it out on tn
board, work in the fruit. butter Your pan, put
in and let it rise again. When light, bake in
moderate oven.
Allow two and three-fourths Of a yard TO
each sheet. unless they to be OF an extr
length This allows for an inch and quartz
/ hem on each end. 1t is better economy to her
both ends the same width, having no up or dow
| to the sheet Do not cut the material, but max
!: an incsion and then rapidly tear across til